Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains ended last week, and after the crowning of its unlikely winner, some of us who begrudgingly watched until the very end are still scratching our heads over why we did it. But what's interesting to me, and mildly puzzling, isn't just my devotion to a show...

A recent MTV.com story on the 16th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death name-drops Chuck Klosterman, who once wrote a much-discussed "alternate history" of what might have happened if Cobain lived. Klosterman plays with Cobain's memory again in his newest collection, Eating the Dinosaur, in which he compares the Nirvana front...